{"title":"Thirteen new species of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Texas.","authors":"Jing Zhang, Qian Cong, Nick V Grishin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analyses of whole genomic shotgun datasets, COI barcodes, morphology, and historical literature suggest that the following 13 butterfly species from the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in Texas, USA are distinct from their closest named relatives and therefore are described as new (type localities are given in parenthesis): <i>Spicauda atelis</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., Mission), <i>Urbanus</i> (<i>Urbanus</i>) <i>rickardi</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., nr. Madero), <i>Urbanus</i> (<i>Urbanus</i>) <i>oplerorum</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., Mission/Madero), <i>Telegonus tsongae</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Starr Co., Roma), <i>Autochton caballo</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., 6 mi W of Hidalgo), <i>Epargyreus fractigutta</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., McAllen), <i>Aguna mcguirei</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Cameron Co., Brownsville), <i>Polygonus pardus</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., McAllen), <i>Arteurotia artistella</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., Mission), <i>Heliopetes elonmuski</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Cameron Co., Boca Chica), <i>Hesperia balcones</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Travis Co., Volente), <i>Troyus fabulosus</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., Peñitas), and <i>Lerema ochrius</i> Grishin, <b>new species</b> (Hidalgo Co., nr. Relampago). Most of these species are known in the US almost exclusively from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Nine of the holotypes were collected in 1971-1975, a banner period for butterfly species newly recorded from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas; five of them collected by William W. McGuire, and one by Nadine M. McGuire. At the time, these new species have been recorded under the names of their close relatives. A <b>Neotype</b> is designated for <i>Papilio fulminator</i> Sepp, [1841] (Suriname). <b>Lectotypes</b> are designated for <i>Goniurus teleus</i> Hübner, 1821 (unknown, likely in South America), <i>Goniloba azul</i> Reakirt, [1867] (Mexico: Veracruz) and <i>Eudamus misitra</i> Plötz, 1881 (Mexico). Several taxonomic changes are proposed. The following taxa are species (not subspecies): <i>Spicauda zalanthus</i> (Plötz, 1880), <b>reinstated status</b> (not <i>Spicauda teleus</i> (Hübner, 1821)), <i>Telegonus fulminator</i> (Sepp, [1841]), <b>reinstated status</b> (not <i>Telegonus fulgerator</i> (Walch, 1775), <i>Telegonus misitra</i> (Plötz, 1881), <b>reinstated status</b> (not <i>Telegonus azul</i> (Reakirt, [1867])), <i>Autochton reducta</i> (Mabille and Boullet, 1919), <b>new status</b> (not <i>Autochton potrillo</i> (Lucas, 1857)), <i>Epargyreus gaumeri</i> Godman and Salvin, 1893, <b>reinstated status</b> (not <i>Epargyreus clavicornis</i> (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)), and <i>Polygonus punctus</i> E. Bell and W. Comstock, 1948, <b>new status</b> (not <i>Polygonus savigny</i> (Latreille, [1824])). <i>Urbanus ehakernae</i> Burns, 2014 and <","PeriodicalId":73391,"journal":{"name":"Insecta mundi","volume":"2023 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e5/03/nihms-1863573.PMC9880598.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10592863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ernst Brockmann, Jing Zhang, Qian Cong, Nick V Grishin
{"title":"Genomics reveals a new genus and species from a single female specimen (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini: Moncina).","authors":"Ernst Brockmann, Jing Zhang, Qian Cong, Nick V Grishin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>New taxa in Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) are traditionally proposed after inspection of male genitalia, which largely form the basis for Hesperiidae taxonomy. However, with genomic DNA sequencing, even a single female specimen can be placed in a phylogenetic context of existing classification and taxonomically assigned with confidence. Genomic sequencing of an unusually patterned Hesperiidae female from San Martin, Peru, characterized by pearly spots outlining an inverted heart pattern on the rust-colored ventral hindwing, reveals that it represents an undescribed genus and species named here as <i>Gemmia buechei</i> Brockmann and Grishin, <b>new genus</b> and <b>new species</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":73391,"journal":{"name":"Insecta mundi","volume":"2022 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/f8/36/nihms-1842991.PMC9584036.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40652516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}